Fantozzi alla riscossa (1990)

Réalisateur:

Neri Parenti

Scénaristes:

Alessandro Bencivenni (writer)
Leonardo Benvenuti (writer)

Genre:

Comedie

Intrigue:

Fantozzi è oramai in pensione ma continua ad andare in ufficio dove viene additato come il tipico esempio di impiegato destinato a non fare carriera...

Plot Keywords:

Sequel

Avis des utilisateurs:

They should have known when to stop...

Ensemble

Paolo Villaggio	...	Ugo Fantozzi
Milena Vukotic	...	Pina Fantozzi
Gigi Reder	...	Filini
Plinio Fernando	...	Mariangela Fantozzi / Uga
Anna Mazzamauro	...	Signorina Silvani
Luigi Petrucci	...	Psicanalista della mutua
Paul Muller	...	Uomo triste
Silvia Annichiarico	...	Giudice Pettoruta
Piero Villaggio	...	Hooligan (as Pierfrancesco Villaggio)
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Antonio Allocca
Stefano Antonucci	...	Cancelliere
Loris Bazzocchi
Angelo Bernabucci	...	Impresario di Cinecittà
Salvatore Billa	...	Mafioso
Renato Cecchetto	...	Giudice popolare
Gianni Franco	...	Ispettore Che Arresta Fantozzi
Giuliano Ghiselli	...	Giudice Divorzista
Sergio Gibello	...	Venditore Di Radio
Simonetta Giurunda
Riccardo Parisio Perrotti	...	Il Giudice
Pino Pellegrino
Graziella Polesinanti
Paolo Roversi
Piero Vivaldi	...	Giudice Popolare Vecchio
Sonia Viviani

Autre(s) titre(s):

Fantozzi colpisce ancora (Italy) (alternative title)

Durée:

105 min

Pays:

Italy

Langue:

Italien

Couleur:

Couleur

Société:

C.G. Silver Film

Connexions De Film:

Suite de Fantozzi (1975)

They should have known when to stop...

Let's get right to the point: this movie is bad. Okay, the story it's not really important in a Fantozzi movie, so the fact that there isn't one is no big deal. But this movie not only doesn't have a story, it also doesn't have an underlying idea, and this is bad. The previous Fantozzi movies really tried to make a statement, even if for most viewers they were only silly comedies... they are a criticism of capitalism and of modern society in general. In both their form and their statements they are almost a 20th century version of Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel" stories. They are comedies, but there is always a serious tone at the base of the gags, and each gag criticizes an aspect of our society. The sixth movie of the series ("Fantozzi Va In Pensione") is a clear example of this: the movie handles with Fantozzi's life after his retirement, with him slowly realizing that he has become an 'old man', a socially unimportant and undesired person. This movie really says something to us and in the end it makes us feel sorry for the poor guy.

"Fantozzi Alla Riscossa", on the other side, is only a collection of old, recycled gags, stripped of all the serious tones I was talking about. What remains is a bunch of silly gags that won't make you laugh at all, because you have seen them before in much better Fantozzi movies, and although they 'look' the same, they feel very different, empty. Paolo Villaggio should have known when to stop, "Fantozzi Va In Pensione" was the perfect ending to what is probably the most successful and loved Italian movie series of all time. All the movies after that one are only poor, commercial imitations of the originals.